. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. instruments, like Nos. 80 and 81,are very numerous in all the four lower pre-historic cities; nay, I do not exaggerate when I affirmthat I could have collectedthousands of them. They are,according to Mr. Davies, ofbasaltic lava, granite, quartz,diorite, porphyry, or othersorts of stone, and only inone instance of silex. Similar instruments arefound in the cave-dwellingsof the Dordogne, as
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. instruments, like Nos. 80 and 81,are very numerous in all the four lower pre-historic cities; nay, I do not exaggerate when I affirmthat I could have collectedthousands of them. They are,according to Mr. Davies, ofbasaltic lava, granite, quartz,diorite, porphyry, or othersorts of stone, and only inone instance of silex. Similar instruments arefound in the cave-dwellingsof the Dordogne, as well asin the Dolmens in France;and many specimens of theseare preserved in the Museumof St. Germain-en-Laye. Theyare,very numerous in the mostancient Swiss Lake habita-tions, and particularly in thoseof the Lake of Constance, where all of them are of hard sandstone. Anumber of rudely-cut globular stone instruments, similar to Nos. 80and 81, were found in the excavations at Szihalom, and are exhibited inthe National Hungarian Museum at Buda-Pesth.® In the opinion of myfriend, Professor Ludwig Lindenschmit, founder and director of thecelebrated Museum of Mainz, these implements were the most ancient. No. 81. Eound Stone for bruising Corn. (Half actual , 45 to 52 ft.) ® See Plate x., Nos. 52-54, 57-60 of the photograi^hs of the National Ilungariau Museum atBuda-Pesth. Chap. V.] STONE IMPLEMENTS 237 millstones of the simplest kind, and were employed for bruising the grainon the plates of sandstone which abound in the Lake habitations.^ The same rudely-cut round stones occur also in the pre-historicvillages m Thera.« Professor Virchow, M. Burnouf, and Dr. Nicolucci^concur m Professor Lindenschmits opinion, that they served for bruisinggram or other substances. Not less abundant than the round corn-bruisers are implements moreor less m the form of Nos. 82 and 83, which are of diorite, and represent
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